Taipei Zoo

Today we will see more kinds of animals we'll witness in a life time *maybe?*!

We visited the awesomely huge Taipei Zoo!, one of the largest zoo in Asia! *according to wiki*

The entrance of Taipei Zoo

When we got there Aunty Liu, Michelle & Martina yet to arrive so we waited outside.

It was so hot!!

So bato taught us how to reduce heat~

Step one...umbrella go up
Step two...umbrella go down
the repeat until you die~

Outside the entrance of the Zoo you'll find people selling all kinds of stuff~ Especially those that makes you feel better under the hot weather~

Whoever invented this a genius?

lots of kids come to visit. Made us feel so young! =)

My first time to see a life Flemingo! *I think* cause from my memory I only saw all the fakes ones~

this is the closest we got to a panda~ unfortunately it's fake!

More fake panda~

real panda likes to sleep~

 sit~

& eat~

so I want be panda too! =)

We had some break at the cafe. Aunty Liu even gave us each a little panda doll~ very sweet ^^

we saw a lot of different types of animal. Some which I don't even know their names or type ==''' 

We also went into the really dark room to see those animals which is basically only active at night~ *too dark too take any photos because flash is not allow inside*

some animals seems pretty angry to see us..most of them are too lazy to even say hai...others just couldn't care less! I guess there must be thinking, how would you feel if you'r caged for display?

you can even find Malaysian Hornbill here *proud* =)

more animals...it's a zoo what else do you expect to see??

of all the animals~ we are most looking forward to visit this one! the King Penguins...partially because it's has one the most unique nature mankind ever discover...but most IMPORTANTLY they have to be kept in freezing temperature!! Which means AIR CON for us!! it's was damn HOT outside okay~ =P

  My first Taiwan Instant Noodle,  it comes with real meat inside! 

After lunch we were sang a few songs~ in our own ways =)

a draft video of our singing moments, there are lots of crazy videos I will complied them at the end of the day for presentation =) 

Our cable car experience up Maokong Gondola *貓空纜車*

Reaching the top, Sanxuan Temple *三玄宮* =)

Some of the pictures we took on around, inside, up, down of the temple~

Oh ya...did I mention Vitzy broke her 100 yuan Umbrella??

Now's she's proud being the one and only~

But then she figured getting it fix will be a better option than getting soak in rain water.  

So we sent in our Russian Engineer~

but after a while...he seems to ran out of solution~

so we sent in our economist from Philippines~

 Still didn't work...so finance expert from Singapore came in too

Followed by the software engineer~

even the Biochemist also lean a hand!

nobody is so sure what they were doing =_='''

 Finally our reverse engineered solution!

It's good =)

Then dinner at night market of course *Shilin Night Market*

Kinda lost count on the numbers of night market we went~ it's everywhere!

Taipei Animal Shelter

We 'upgrade' our boys room to quad room seems we added 2 more EP to our team =) it's really an awesome experience to be living under one roof with people from different culture and language! *of course all of us can speak English*  

Here's Bato showing us his Russian books!! all I can see is ALIEN alphabetical letters~ He shared with us some of his AIESEC experience with ANSTU LC *local community* =)

some more congested human traffic at the MRT station. 7 eleven convenient store is always the favorite first store to visit every morning. Why??

cause it's filled with everything you can buy!!...Yes everythinggg. instant noodle, beverage, snacks, reload for easy cards, reload for phones...most important of all~ COFFEE! =)

Our intern start with lesson from Professor Andrew. But it was a pretty tight lesson as he have to gives us an 8 hour lecture so we did not have the opportunity to have a proper visit of the shelter

So today was the great opportunity for us to have a really good look at the shelter. How things works here, how they treat the animals etc etc

When we got there we saw this birdy *baby parrot* sitting right on top of the table looking at us like we are some kinda 'cavemen'~ so??
of course we 'played' with it! haha...what I meant was...you know what I mean according to the pictures, everyone was like "I want carry it...." =)

Then we wait for quit some time in the meeting room, because Aunty Liu told us there will be someone to let us know the program for that day. So we waited and waited....and waited...until~~

some of us fell asleep~ 

birdy was pretty active walk round and round....pricking on our begs...'reading' our brochure then sleeping on Hengyi's shoulder =) 

We were messing around with $$ from each of our own country! Some notes makes us feel so RICH like this 100000 Rupiah from Indonesia. We exchanged some...but of course only the small coins for collection & memories. Poor students like me can't afford large dollar bills!!

So anyways~ there's was a lady from the shelter came and gave us an official tour of the shelter. As she finds it more comfortable speaking Mandarin, Henry had to be our temporary translator for us because most EP from my team can't speak Mandarin.

Here's the friendlier cat 'department'. Friendlier cats are put on the front line of the shelter for adoption because they are much more presentable. *of course this doesn't means that other cats were left abandon*.

People can still visit other not so friendly cat's at the back =)

We move to the doggies sections. there was a lot of dogs so the divide it to A B and C D wings. Each wings will take turn being opened to public for visitation/adoption. 

All kinds of dogs you can imagine. Big, small, black, white, cute, sad. fierce, furry..

Some even look like a lion! *sorry can't get a proper picture cause it kept moving around!*

.Some of the staff dogs. Very cute indeed ~

Tons of Dog food!!

Here's the puppies room. puppies room is closed all the time. but we were allow to enter for the visit. normally they won't let people going in and out of this room because little puppies immune system are still weak and are easily infected.

Mummy dogs will be in puppies room too to nurture their puppies.

We got a tiny job experience, that is to move the deceased dogs to the frozen room *will only be there temporary*.

The frozen room~ to temporary store the deceased animals

Here's the staff who gave us the tour *sorry I can't recall her name*~

She then gave us a explanation on the shelter's history, how it came about. The problems they face.
The statistic of the animals populations etc etc.

Bato was really paying full attention =)

others was giving their attention too.

Pat was meditating~

nahhh...just kidding..it was actually our break time so some of us took rest~ =P

Birdy resting too =)

There's even a wheelchair doggy. First time for me to see this! Really cool and touched to see how much love the people there have for these animals. 

The scanner used to scan for dog tags implanted in the dogs. Dogs with tags are dogs with official owner~

This hyper kitty's really playful..like to mess around on the staff's work desk. It thought the monitor was touch screen...haha...nah~ it's just very curious seeing the mouse pointer on the screen.

After too much exercise it fell asleep~ just like that. Hope sweet~  

we get to walk some of the doggies~ 

Bring them out of their cage and walk with them around the shelter compound~

It was an great day~

Night view in Taipei is just really amazing!